[Bug 11003] Map input type="range" suggestion labels to accessibility APIs

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11003

--- Comment #5 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> 2010-10-10 23:34:40 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> However, the purpose of mapping HTML semantics to platform accessibility APIs
> is to avoid platform accessibility API clients having to become direct DOM
> consumers to provide user interfaces on top of those semantics.
> 
> So the fact that the semantics are extractable with direct DOM access does not
> reduce the utility of documenting how to map the extracted semantics to
> accessibility APIs.

Ah, okay.  Different definitions of "extractable".  ^_^


> > Was there some additional specific structure that should be exposed?  Is there a precedent for
> > talking about Accessiblity API-specific data structures?
> 
> I don't understand what you're talking about. Do the Apple Accessibility API
> and UI Automation examples above constitute the sort of precedents you're
> looking for?

Not quite.  What I meant was, are there precedents for HTML5 to define exactly
how features map into some accessibility APIs, beyond straightforward cases
like ARIA?

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Received on Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:34:42 UTC